Orcabessa Bay is a small town in the Saint Mary Parish, located in the northeast part of the island. It is home to 7,000 people. The town also houses the GoldenEye Villa, a retreat that previously was the private home and beach of Ian Fleming, a British author best known for creating the James Bond series.

Emergency teams in Jamaica have had to use machetes to cut their way through dozens of blocked roads in Hurricane Melissa’s aftermath. The death toll on the island rose to 19 on Friday as teams reached remote,

A suburban woman recently returned home from Jamaica following a vacation that turned into a fight for her life.

At first light on Wednesday, the coastal communities of southwestern Jamaica bore the devastation of being in the direct path of Hurricane Melissa.

Click here to watch"I am grateful to God to be here, to be home, to be safe and to be alive," Britt-Johnson said.Britt-Johnson shared an embrace among a group, she says, helped save her life.The south suburban woman finally back home after being stranded in Jamaica for days without the critical kidney transplant medications she needed.

Hurricane Melissa strengthened into a Category 5 storm early Monday, unleashing torrential rain and threatening to bring catastrophic flooding to the northern Caribbean.

Cook County official Trinette Britt-Johnson is set to be welcomed home in Chicago on Sunday after a life-threatening ordeal in Jamaica.

Maritza Caver-Blake of Jonesboro has weathered a lot in her life, but she never guessed she would ride out a major hurricane in Jamaica.

Category 5 Hurricane Melissa is making landfall in Jamaica and is unleashing some of nature's most intense fury on the island nation with a high risk of great loss of life and catastrophic damage on Tuesday.

The updates sent by friends and neighbors on WhatsApp confirmed what fisher Prince Davis already feared: Hurricane Melissa put a hole in the stern of his 50-foot (15-meter) fishing boat, and damaged the cabin and back deck.